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Topic: He knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you're awake... (Read 2121 times)

Not only Saint Nick but also, the yin to his yang, the stick to his carrot, Krampus! I somehow missed out on the legend of Krampus as a child, must have missed the Rankin/Bass stop-motion Christmas special. Now I realize the true meaning of Christmas: bribing and terrorizing children into behaving! So you you better be good for goodness sake... or Krampus is going to beat the crap out of you and drag you to hell in a basket.

"A hundred year ago, Santa Claus didn't bother with keeping track of bad children who deserved coal lumps in their stockings. He had a devilish pal named Krampus who took care of the kids on the naughty list. With his red skin, shaggy black coat of fur, obscene pointed tongue, cloven hooves, pointed tail, and sharp horns emanating from his forehead, Krampus carried a switch to beat young miscreants senseless, after which he'd toss them in his backpack and drag them to his uncomfortably warm subterranean lair."

"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

No, a friend posted one of these pictures on Facebook and it was so bizarre I read up on it. The fact these illustrations were Christmas cards, aimed at children and have such blatant sexual imagery-- the devil with the huge tongue rocking behind the boy on the horse, chains in one hand, treats and switches in the other-- makes me wonder what the cultural mindset was at that time and place. It is quite perverse and strange on multiple levels.

No, a friend posted one of these pictures on Facebook and it was so bizarre I read up on it. The fact these illustrations were Christmas cards, aimed at children and have such blatant sexual imagery-- the devil with the huge tongue rocking behind the boy on the horse, chains in one hand, treats and switches in the other-- makes me wonder what the cultural mindset was at that time and place. It is quite perverse and strange on multiple levels.

The mindset was the better to scare children without the sexual innuendo. In a child's mind anyone who would dragged them from safety, torture them with whips and chains, squeeze them in tight places, from monsters with large fangs and claws swiping close to their faces are the stuff that nightmares are made of. Next we'll have Freddy Krueger handing out "rotten eggs" or "slathered bunnies rabbits" to bad girls and boys during Easter. Who knew that Christmas and scary demons would go hand in hand.